This guy is stealing your rewards. Take them back!

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Flagged a few at 30%.

I am working on building up some STEEM so I can delegate a little bit to SFR. It won't be a ton since I am still relatively small, but hopefully it will help. Thanks for continuing to advocate for them and for keeping this topic at the forefront of our attention!

It will be appreciated. I'd like to see some of those with 50k SP delegating more. They can afford it.

Received word from @therealwolf that this account is blacklisted by @smartsteem.

Also on @buildawhale and Minnowbooster FYI

That's some good news. I wish all bots were as proactive.

I have been systematically flagging this guy every night along with a bunch of other SFR people. He doesnt seem to be getting the message and is probably now taking a hit on this 'profit' if there ever was one.

Most see it right away and either shrink away, or comment. This case is a little different so far.

Keep it up if you can. If we remove enough rewards he won't be able to continue.

Thanks to talk about it, Steve! I think users like this are just a shame for our community. We need to have more active users who write original contents and less users who just copy a link to buy upvotes. People who see those kind of posts are taking a lot of money could think that steemit is just a place where people earn money to do nothing and it's no true! We need to take care of good users discouraging the bad behaviours.

He's now claiming he did it to promote Steemit. I don't believe him.

Thanks for putting this out there, I flagged a couple of the 6-day old ones.

Hope he's blacklisted by all, pronto.

Unfortunately some bots seem content to support crap. I've mentioned it to some, such as @joeparys, but it's just business to them.

I do not support this kind of content ever and am doing my best to help this community.

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I'm happy to hear that, but do you check every post that gets your vote? Here's one repeat offender. Do they deserve those rewards? Do you blacklist people?

I had double check to make sure it's not a parody account.

Good on you, Joe.

Those naughty bot owners need some...

hi @steevc . sharing youtube videos from the source on steemit it's legal i do nothing wrong.

Fair play for your bought upvotes,

Fair play for our downvotes.

okay good luck

Why do you think you deserve these rewards? They are not your videos and you add nothing to them. We are just restoring the balance.

actually i bay votes from bots with 20% loss or more just to promote those videos to bring the youtubers to DTube im note new on steemit i have more than one year here.

I saw you are not new. If you want to promote Steem then why not add some text to the posts to at least say what you are doing? Even so, the post rewards are not deserved and people will continue to flag as your posts are regarded as spam and an abuse of the rewards system.

Has anyone joined as a result of your posts?

If you want to bring Youtubers here then do a proper post about it. You can feature several in one post. Just buying votes all the time is considered bad behaviour. You are not being part of the Steem community.

actually i'm a day trader i dont have so much time and neither skills to write articles but i would try. you can flag as you can i dont care about 100 bucks worth of steem

So why did you not defend yourself before? Do you not look at comments? We want people to promote Steem, but it has to be done in a productive way.

if i defend myself you wont be able to show your posts on steemit again but attacking bloggers with flags this is what's illegal on steemit

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Please don't make threats. It's a waste of your time and mine.

Flagging is a legitimate form of curation, like voting. Very little is 'illegal' here. You made no effort to show you were promoting Steemit and never engaged with anyone here, so of course your posts looked like spam, especially when you just posted memes.

It might be better to buy votes for good DTubers and show people on Youtube what is possible. Work with the community and we all benefit. If you invest and it does well then you should be happy. Anything good takes some effort.

I'm not out to attack people. I just want to make Steem and Steemit better. The others who have flagged you have the same aims.

!popcorn

I almost did a post about this account also... But it never seems like anyone cares much. Not said in a whiny voice, even thought it sounds like a whiny comment.

I can't ever talk myself into large investments here, with the lack of concern on having my investments liquidated by these guys.

I care @whatsup! I share your downvote campaigns on twitter too. I need folks like you, and Steve, cause I don't go to the trending page as it causes me to fall ill...

I sure enjoy helping with the flogging though! xo

It is depressing to see the crap that goes on here, but then I'm encouraged by the great community I see at Steemfest and generally around Steem. If a few more bigger players would join in fighting the abuse we could deal with most of it. They could be supporting minnows who are willing to do the hard work of seeking it out. I already delegate to a few who do this. My curation rewards are pretty irrelevant to me anyway.

Nice work man. Good looking out. This is how communities should defend themselves.

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hey my haters hello again check that out https://steemit.com/sharingcontent/@transisto/not-your-keys-not-your-cryptos-proof-of-keys-celebration-jan-3rd I think that i should pump all my bitcoin to steem power too to get the same respect.

Not hating you, just shifting the rewards to more worthy posts that people have worked hard on. Please do invest in Steem and I hope it pays off for you. We want to make this a place everyone can enjoy, but if it looks like someone is taking more than their share then every user is entitled to use their vote to change that. That's how Steem works.

We don't hate you, but what you were doing goes against how some of us see Steem. You can use your SP however you like, but we need to be building Steem up rather than worrying about a quick profit.

Bring in good people and we will support them.

You missed this memo.

https://steemit.com/sharingcontent/@transisto/not-your-keys-not-your-cryptos-proof-of-keys-celebration-jan-3rd#@berniesanders/re-transisto-not-your-keys-not-your-cryptos-proof-of-keys-celebration-jan-3rd-20181211t230705718z

I flagged that stuff as well.

I think that i should pump all my bitcoin to steem power too to get the same respect.

Better keep your word then because I highly doubt it.

Hi there,
I've just upvoted this post
A small contribution from me, to help the steem community to thrive ;)

Is this actually profitable?

Whenever I buy votes they are not really profitable, I usually just do it as a marketing expense that is not very high?

I have wondered this, but we can at least make it even less profitable. It's the vote sellers who always win from the deal. Does promoting a post like this work? Unless you get onto trending it doesn't seem to gain you comments.

I saw one of them mention that one of his boosted posts only had about $2 worth of real votes. So it's not really. All these people are doing is making themselves look silly, annoying people and hurting their own long term profit and everyone else's - all for a few dollars more.

I really think that greed is the biggest danger for Steem. It would be such a shame if that kills it

well the question is actually do u get any upvotes.

It feels like organica upvotes have kinda disapeared from steem altogether.

I get plenty, as well as some automated ones I didn't pay for. I don't deal in absolutes. Steem is neither totally great nor totally crap. I would think the purpose of promoting a post is to get responses. You can earn rewards if you gain supportive followers. Vote buying is spoiling Steem. The trending page is junk and people are getting high reps they didn't earn. I think it's worth taking some action to deal with this, although I can do little about the worst offenders.

I saw him on the list but his reps higher than mine. Plenty others to flag mind!

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His rep is irrelevant as his SP is not enough to do damage. Rep is all messed up by people buying votes anyway. I'd get that changed if I could. I think votes should have diminishing effect on rep if they always come from the same accounts.

I thought rep had an effect on rep independent of steem power? i.e. two people with rep 70 flagging me would both have the same affect on my SP regardless of their SP?

The reputation of an author can only be reduced if the flagger has a higher reputation than the author. The increase of reputation, however, is possible from any voter with a rep > 25. The amount the reputation is changed depends on the value of the votes and flags (and therefore the SP of the voter/flagger). If a rep 25 accounts flags you with -$100, you also won't see a change in your reputation (but in your earnings). If a rep 70 account flags you with -$100, you might also lose a bit of reputation. If a rep 70 account flags you with -$1 your reputation change is marginal and you won't see a change in the number either.

I'm not sure of the exact relationship and I'm will to risk a bit of rep for this. So far he hasn't retaliated or responded at all. I think we need to kill off as much of his rewards as we can to show him he's on the wrong track.

I'll jump in next round!

Rep is purely dependent on SP gained (or loss). Take away rewards, take away rep in an exactly proportional relationship. This is how I understand it at least.

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That app allows people to share things they made themselves. If the community decides to upvote it then that's fine, but the buying of votes is out of control. It's up to the community to do what they think is right for themselves and/or Steem.

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There are plenty of others. You can pick your own targets. That guy has nothing to flag at the moment anyway.

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You need a bit more SP to do any damage. We need to stop the small fish getting big.

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Have you not seen all the flagging I've done? Even my flag is only a few cents, but I still flag some trending posts. Others seem to care more about making something from curation. I fight the winnable battles. That's my choice.